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Originally posted by Bilky
Originally posted by shaneslaughta
I see nothing good coming from this thread, just racial bias and stereotyping.
Yes its not good to portray NZ in that way, or any people this thread disturbs me.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by FractalChaos13242017
Asteroid impact. (see any dinosaurs around?) Great Flood. (Just ask Noah)
World wide epidemic. (See Bubonic Plague)
Any of these things might happen at some point and decrease our numbers to a fraction of what they were. And most likely, in that situation, there will be chaos and confusion. Once the dust settles, and people start to try to get back to living, they will eventually form a new government. What you have there are the blueprints for that event.
Nobody is going to kill anyone.edit on 24-10-2012 by network dude because: bad spelr
Originally posted by FractalChaos13242017
And hey, you COULD probably convince 500 Million Americans to pull it off.
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by FractalChaos13242017
I don't know any more than anyone else, but a world changing event is inevitable, it's just a question of when.
Originally posted by OratoryHeist
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by FractalChaos13242017
I don't know any more than anyone else, but a world changing event is inevitable, it's just a question of when.
And just what might that 'world changing' event be, in your opinion?
After all, if we look back at what space agencies have been doing over the past 11+ years, we see they have successfully been tracking and landing on asteroids/comets. So we have the ability to deflect those if needs be.
Originally posted by network dude
I enjoyed the movie as well. Ben Afleck and Bruce Willis sure were good in that.
All I am saying is it's happened before, and it will happen again. As to what "it" is, I do not know. And worrying about it would be a large waste of time. Unless of course we could send a drilling team out on a space ship to detonate nukes and split an asteroid up.
Originally posted by darkhorserider
reply to post by OratoryHeist
"IT" is not just one thing. There have been countless calamities strike the earth. From meteors, to volcanoes, to floods, to climate change, to plagues. There is no shortage of global disasters to choose from. Our record of life on earth is a testament to how volatile and fragile it is. We may not cease to exist (although that is possible), but we will certainly encounter Dark Ages once again.
How many civilizations have risen and fallen? Just recently the USSR fell apart after less than a century as a super power, and when it fell, there were dozens of former states struggling for power, water, groceries, etc.
The DC Sniper in the US had people scared to pump gas, scared to go to school, scared to go to work, and that was just one man and a kid, but they impacted the economy and habits of multiple states! Imagine if something even more disruptive lasted just a little bit longer?
Multiple Katrina type hurricanes? Yellowstone? New Madrid? EMP? Coordinated Terrorism? Massive Blizzard?
Hell, just a blockage of the Hormuz Strait for any extended period would probably cause enough backlash that everyone in the Western World would have to adjust their daily habits!